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The guy has a hog in too and didn't lose any of it

Avi is playing great baseball, continuing to prove a lot of people (myself included) wrong

Terrible live camera work by bally...no idea what was happening there till the play was over

Let's see if Yelich is really back

Amazing how spoiled this pitching has made me this year... The guy gives up 3 runs after 18 consecutive scoreless innings. Me: "Man what is Burnes deal tonight he is really scuffling"

These injuries are not ideal in the slightest, but if they are going to happen, not a terrible time at all. Hopefully Adames is the same as Escobar and Peralta on the minor side...shut these guys down for a few weeks and then get them back fresh and ramped up right before the playoffs.

Man, if we are in a 1 and done series, we had a very bad September. And if one of the Brewers starting pitchers in the playoffs is not currently on the 40 man then something else has gone very wrong. The one game at a time mentality is lame outside of the locker room. It’s a fan forum and we’re in the midst of one of the best seasons in team history...it’s never too early to get excited about the teams playoff prospects.

[sarcasm]Man, now I have to be upset with Giannis too when the Brewers don't sign any big name free agents?[/sarcasm]

After this season, Avi is going to decline his side of the option if I had to guess. This is the tweet from Heyman when the deal was originally signed. Jon Heyman @JonHeyman Avisail Garcia turned down 3 year deals with Brewers and elsewhere due to the expiring basic agreement in 2 years and the chance to raise the AAV afterward. Betting on himself #brewers Will be interesting to see what he can garner on the open market. I would be surprised to see him back with the Brewers if he's going to be bringing in $15+ AAV. Next year the outfield is probably the biggest question mark for the team. I expect Stearns to somehow offload one of JBJ or Cain this offseason and am interested to see how he fills the rest. Taylor to me is a solid bat off the bench and can step in full time when injuries occur, but not sure he is a guy you want to go into the season with as your #1.

This was my thought too...looked like he was trying to work on something with his secondary pitches. I don't mind that at all. Obviously can't be acting like the division is decided but the team is in a position where they should start making sure they are well positioned come October and if his secondary pitches need work would rather see it happen sooner than later

I'm kinda expecting them to ramp up to a normal 5 man rotation soon, and then have guys skip a turn right before playoffs or maybe just throw like 2-3 innings or something their last turn before playoffs. I would almost guarantee they do not have a 5 man rotation during the playoffs. Assuming the MLB returns to the regular playoff scheduling which has an off day for travel after games 2 & 4, I would bet the Brewers use a 4 man rotation. Something like the following I think makes sense for the divisional round: Game 1 - Woodruff Game 2 - Burnes Rest Game 3 - Peralta Game 4 - Houser/Lauer/Anderson (unless this is an elimination game then maybe Game 1 starter on 3 days rest) Rest Game 5 - Woodruff with Burnes available out of the pen. Obviously the order of Woodruff, Burnes & Peralta can be debated but point is come October, I don't think limiting innings will be a priority especially given the built in rest days.

Hope the juices from making a few big plays when the game was on the line will carry over and help Yelich start getting his mojo back.

BA does a great job highlighting the small things Pina does to help the pitchers.

Assuming that bunt was Yelich but would be great if call came from Murphy

What a wild game

I forgot about Escobar double switch....cant believe they just pitched to Yelich even with the year he’s having

JBJ just trying to help Adames MVP case

It would be interesting to watch games from 20 years back but with the zone outline and gamecast pitches on the screen to compare. Can't say if umps are better or worse today, but having every call analyzed in real time definitely hurts todays umps

Ump has dinner reservations

Its time to drop Yelich in the order. I still am in the camp that he is going to start hitting better but time to let him get going in the bottom half. Would much rather have Garcia, Rowdy, or Narvaez get a shot there. Yelich's OBP and speed are nice at the top, but his walk rate is declining and teams shift so effectively against him that lead-off probably isn't a great spot either. Drop him to 7th and hope he forces his way back up

Shoulder discomfort is certainly better than elbow discomfort. Cautiously optimistic that this is just the late season fatigue. A few week shut down isn't worst case scenario here if it leads to a fresh Freddy come October

This is exactly right...I hate the "it was too close to take" expression for big league players. It's not little league where anything close is a strike, there is a clear strike zone and the umps are paid a lot of money to call it right and the ump here missed it. Yelich isn't doing anything productive by swinging at that pitch

I have a feeling Yelich is going to be trying a different weight training program this offseason

Can we stop with the knee cap as being a proximate cause of Yelich's slump? It was a fracture of the knee cap. Nothing was shattered. He didn't even need surgical intervention or any serious medical treatment outside a knee immobilizer. More importantly, Yelich is 4th on the Brewers in sprint speed behind Garcia, Cain and Taylor. If his fractured knee cap was effecting him at the plate, you could bet that it would also impact his sprint speed. No - not when the mental component of that injury occurring while swinging in the batter's box is probably moreso a culprit to Yelich's change in approach than anything else. Also, sprint speed isn't affected by a healed broken bone. That injury occurred on a slider that started middle of the plate and broke way inside from a RHP - when you look at Yelich's lower swing % and probably more importantly the dramatic decrease in damage he's done with pitches middle-in since this injury, it's not hard to put 2 and 2 together why Yelich doesn't seem to want to attack those pitches by getting the bat out in front and hit them with authority to right field. Every player coming off an injury likely has some mental hurdles to jump in order to regain confidence in the injured area and trust that you aren't going to reinjure it. I had torn my ACL playing basketball and it took me abut 2 years to be comfortable again and not think about the knee every time I played. I play basketball in an old man league maybe once a week...Yelich is a professional athlete who is working with trainers and swinging a bat on a daily basis. I don't doubt that Yelich might have dealt with these mental side effects...and if he did, it likely was resolved during Spring Training 2020. He has taken so many swings since his injury there is just no way it still is impacting him...his back on the other hand is a more plausible factor

I haven't heard anything regarding him but he might just get fired too for exactly what you said. He was brought in because he was close with that group and may be able to get them back playing up to their potential. We all see how that played out...he definitely isn't the main fault, but certainly not blameless either.